Atlantic Crossing

Barbara Molin

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£10.49

‘Are you the captain?’ ‘Yes I am.’ ‘Good for you,’ said the woman official registering Barbara Molin’s arrival in Bermuda with her 1980s yacht Eidos. But this captain had decided that she needed a crew. It was her first Atlantic crossing from the Bahamas via Bermuda and the Azores to Portugal, en route for a new life in Greece and she wasn’t sure she could do it alone.  Asking for help wasn’t easy and her choice was flawed -- a grumpy former boyfriend who refused all but basic duties and belittled both her competence and her yacht. Molin writes in the first person and the present tense which could become tedious but doesn’t. She’s self-analytical, occasionally self-pitying but impressively pragmatic, determined and seamanlike. An absorbingly honest account.